On the Waterfront

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61 Byram Shore Road has sold for $10.130 million. On and off the market since 2018, it’s pretty special, and true deep-water docks are rare in Greenwich. Reader Hankster commented in an earlier post on this house that he believed it was originally built by one of the Steins, of the Steinway Piano family, which is rather neat. Also neat would be if the listing agent really meant it when she suggested that the house would convey with “a well-stocked wine cellar”; an unusual lagniappe, certainly, but sure to be appreciated by the new owner.

Purchased for $7.240 million ($11,632,217 in current dollars) in 2005.

What have I been saying about the sales power of the Zebra?

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told you so

558 Lake Avenue was purchased out of foreclosure back in 2016 for $4.4 million, and put back on the market, untouched, for $6.5 million in 2017. I expressed doubt about that price at the time, and sure enough, it failed. Even after a renovation, a second attempt in 2023 at $6.350 fared no better, but this third attempt, with a $6.495 price attached and zebras grazing in the backyard, it has succeeded at last, and it’s reported pending after just 7 days on the MLS. As I thought it might.

no zebras back in ‘23

There's usually a bargain to be found in foreclosure actions, especially when $18,000,000 is due: there should be plenty of room to negotiate,

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The saga of the 8 Old Round Hill Lane foreclosure action seems to be drawing to an end, especially now that one of the defendants has filed a “Disclosure of No Defense”.

The court docket can be found here.

A cautionary note: the couple has, I believe, long-since been divorced or at least has been involved in lengthy, adversarial litigation*, and the wife, who has been enjoying sole possession of the premises, seems to have neglected to perform needed maintenance on the structure, so who knows what condition it’s in?

*- Police: Woman drove through garage door

Updated Jan 24, 2012 10:04 p.m.

Sheri G. Lampert, 54, of 21 Meadowcroft Road, was charged Monday with breach of peace and second-degree criminal mischief after she drove a vehicle through the garage door of a Doubling Road residence, police said.

Arriving officers observed a woman standing on the front steps of the residence, screaming at the door, police said. The vehicle had front-end damage, with pieces of wood sticking out of the hood, police said.

The garage door was also damaged, police said. Lampert admitted driving the vehicle through the door, according to police.

Lampert is scheduled to appear in state Superior Court in Stamford on Wednesday.

I wrote on this subject 10 years ago: The Curse of Greyledge Continues

Shari Lampert (not the Sears Lamperts) has had quite of time of things since she and her now former husband Spencer razed Col. Bolling’s estate, “Greyledge”, at 133-137 Doubling Road back in 2007. Her latest bid at notoriety is reported today after being arrested for teeing off on her house keeper with a five iron back in June.

One June 29th, police received a complaint of a physical altercation between an employer and her housekeeper. Police say 56-year-old Shari Gay Lampert had a tumultuous argument with her housekeeper and demanded restitution for the alleged damage the housekeeper had done in Lampert’s home while employed there. During the argument, Lampert wielded a golf club toward the victim before entering the victim’s car to take the victim’s purse and remove all of her cash from it. An investigation determined that there was enough evidence to arrest Lampert for larceny and disorderly conduct, police said. Lampert turned herself into Greenwich police Friday on an arrest warrant and was charged. Lampert was released on $2,000 bond and will appear in court August 1st.

Ms. Lambert seems to have some anger issues – she was arrested in January, 2012 for driving her car through the garage doors of her husband Spencer’s new digs, again in May, 2012 for a “domestic dispute”, and, it appears, a few other times as well.

Like Dunellan Hall (Helmsley’s Folly) up on Rogue’s Hill, which has seen nothing but tragedy since it was constructed in 1918 , the Bolling estate’s streak started with the death during WW 1 of Colonel Bolling himself and now, it seems, extends to it’s latest owner. These days there’s nothing left of that estate, but the land remains and can be yours for $10 million (and my guess is for far less). The question is, who would risk the wrath of the Bollings?

(h/t, Publius)

Relax, fellas: there's only one person in the US who would buy anything as unreliable as a British junker, and his Riverside garage can only accommodate two of them, at most.

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Range Rover and a Jaguar in their natural habitat

Grifters gonna grift

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If it matters, Crockett pocketed $2 million in crypto-currency from two seperate superpacs. Just say’n.

And as long as we’re talking about this rising star of the Democrat Part, I might as well drag this story from the draft folder of a couple of days ago: Except that I'm long past the capacity for outrage by the Congressional Grifters, I’d be more outraged that Hot Wheels Crockett was flying First Class at taxpayer's expense than I am at her displaying the person we already know. As it is, meh – just the usual behavior of our betters and more deserving.

Dem Rep. Jasmine Crockett cuts passengers in wheelchairs as she’s slammed for ‘abusing her power’ at airport

Accompanied by taxpayer provided security guards as well.

There's a new sheriff in town: update on yesterday's Columbia Library occupation

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I forsee travel to a foreign land in your future

I’d feared that nothing would be done to punish these thugs — the Columbia administrators let them stay inside for five hours, after all, before calling in the police — but Columbia no longer controls who gets punished (that would be no one) and who gets the boot.

Marco Rubio to Review Visa Status of Pro-Palestine Protesters Arrested at Columbia University Library

Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters clashed with New York City police outside Columbia University in Manhattan on Wednesday night. Earlier in the day, protesters took over the school’s library. This backfired as authorities locked them inside and arrested many of them. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he’s reviewing the visa status of those arrested, meaning they could be sent packing back to their home countries.

It’s good start; now expel those who are students, and send all of them: foreign visa holders, students, and run of the mill trespassers alike, to Rikers Island for, say, two weeks, to reflect on things, and for the encouragement of others. That would be end of this crap, right there.


Green Privilege (Updated)

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Bernie Sanders Claims He's too important to Fly Commercial

Sanders, of course, has been "fighting oligarchy" with his pal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), aka AOC, but the problem is that a) most people don't know even what "oligarchy" is and b) Sanders reportedly spent $221,000 on private jets so he could attend those "Fighting Oligarchy" rallies. 

In April, Fox News spotted the two "party of the people" reps exiting a private plane that cost a whopping $15,000 an hour to fly. Here's more from the Fox News website: 

Sanders boarded the luxury Bombardier Challenger private jet at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California, on Tuesday afternoon, according to a photo captured by a source on the ground and shared exclusively with Fox News Digital. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, whom the source also spotted boarding the private jet, spoke at their 'Fighting Oligarchy' event in Bakersfield just hours earlier. 

Flight records reveal the jet landed at Sacramento Mather Airport on Tuesday evening, which is about a 20-minute drive to Folsom, California, where the self-identified Democratic socialists hosted their second rally of the day. After publication Thursday, Fox News Digital obtained new footage of Sanders and AOC exiting the private jet in Sacramento Tuesday evening from California resident Matvei Levchenko.

The jet Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez were seen boarding and deplaning made stops in Salt Lake City and Boise prior to landing in Bakersfield, according to flight records. The arrival dates match the duo's 'Fighting Oligarchy' events in Salt Lake City and Nampa, which is about a 25-minute drive from Boise Airport. 

Fred Baier: "You know, Elissa Slotkin, senator from Michigan, she said you shouldn't be using 'oligarch.' It's over people's head. You've gotten criticized from other people. Free Beacon says Bernie Sanders spent $221,000 on private jets fighting the oligarchy tour — paid for by friends of Bernie Sanders —that you've spent millions of dollars in campaign funds on private jet travel over the years. How do you push back on both of those things?" Baier asked. 

Sanders' response? "When's the last time you saw Donald Trump during a campaign mode at national airport?"  (Because it always comes back to Donald Trump.) 

"No, no...he's also not fighting the oligarchy," Baier responded. 

To which Bernie replied, "No. You run a campaign and you do three or four or five rallies in a week. The only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people. Think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United waiting, you know, while 30,000 people are waiting? That's the only way you can get around. No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in the past. We're gonna do it in the future."

Champion of the Little People, even though they should know better than to delay their betters by clogging up airports, when they should just stay put.

UPDATE:

That’s a pretty poor response for a story that’s three weeks old. The Free Beacon first reported this on April 17, which also notes that Sanders has spent “millions” on private jets over the last several years even apart from “fighting the oligarchy”[.]

Note that Sanders is  “fighting the oligarchy” alongside a Congresswoman who crashed into her first year in office, ala the Kool-Aide Man running through a brick wall, demanding to ban “farting cows and airplanes,” and now she’s happily flying across the country as well on a private jet.

Bernie’s Website states, “Climate change is a threat to the planet: We must address it”

You must address it. As for he and AOC: